1. Duty, by Robert M. Gates, Knopf
2. David and Goliath, by Malcolm Gladwell, Little Brown
3. Everything I Need to Know I Learned From a Little Golden Book, by Diane Muldrow, Golden Books
4. This Is the Story of a Happy Marriage, by Ann Patchett, Harper
5. I Am Malala, by Malala Yousafzai, Little Brown
6. Grain Brain, by David Perlmutter, Little Brown
7. The Bully Pulpit, by Doris Kearns Goodwin, S&S
8. The Boys in the Boat, by Daniel James Brown, Viking
9. Things That Matter, by Charles Krauthammer, Crown Forum
10. Little Failure, by Gary Shteyngart, Random House
11. My Age of Anxiety, by Scott Stossel, Knopf
12. One Summer: America, 1927, by Bill Bryson, Doubleday
13. The Body Book, by Cameron Diaz, HarperWave
14. Stitches, by Anne Lamott, Riverhead
15. My Promised Land, by Ari Shavit, Spiegel & Grau